Last night I was at a concert,where they played Samuel Barber's adagio for strings which is not unconnected to this other piece of his, the agnus Dei.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJ4hN7vxWoand a young man next to me (a pianist/piano student - whose English was shaky) wrote: "Torch to God" on a piece of paper, and showed it to me, to express his response to the music.

and I thought about the phrase, and what it might have meant (the concert was going on - it wasn't a time for talking) and it seemed to me that, whether he meant it showed the way, lit the way to God, or if he meant it was lifting up a sign of worship to God, either way, it was a way to contemplate Jesus.

and so I send it to you all, as my Easter greeting today. (it's just as good for Palm Sunday, Theo!)

Christ is risen.

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. - Psalm 26

I've put in a post about Barber and his wonderful music in Chatterbox (Talking Music.)

"We have more knowledge than those who came before us not because of our greater intelligence and understanding, but because we are dwarves sitting on the shoulders of giants who preceded us."- Bernard of Chartres

"We have more knowledge than those who came before us not because of our greater intelligence and understanding, but because we are dwarves sitting on the shoulders of giants who preceded us."- Bernard of Chartres